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Memphis Raines
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Don't really know how to start this. Essentially I'm a virgin when it comes to being a forum dude. Never joined one before, and in that respect, I guess I'll be popping my cherry with this. However, I've been lurking about in the shadows for quite some time now. Figured it was time for me to step out of the shadows and into the sunlight, to play along with the rest of you angels and saints. So, here I am...

Not from Memphis, in case you're wondering, but I do dig Elvis... I mean, he is the king after all. Wasn't a fan of the movie 'Gone in 60 seconds', but thought the name Memphis Raines was pretty cool. I've been writing on and off for about, well, for what feels like a lifetime of stories made up only to live in my mind, or having written down something or another, only to stop half way and never finish. Having found this place awhile back and reading some scripts, some very good while others mediocre, then coming into this forum and reading about what others had to say, well... this was the inspiration I was seeking. So, here I am... and I'm glad I found this place...

Big horror fan! Love, love, love horror movies! Yes, especially zombie movies... though I don't consider '28 Days Later' to be a zombie movie. If you want to compare that movie to a George Romero flick, then I say compare it to 'The Crazies'. Hopefully I'll soon have a story to contribute to this site. Would love to hear what you good people have to say about whatever I may write about... uh... you guys don't do public executions for bad stories do you? It would suck to be burned alive at the stake. And, y'know... I kind of got used to being alive and stuff... Anyways, good or bad, I would love to hear your guys' opinions and suggestions that would help shape me into a better writer.

As Humphrey Bogart says at the end of 'Casablanca': I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship...

Being a man who believes in first impressions, please forgive me if my introduction ran alittle too long.

And one last thing...

Hi!  


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Welcome to the board.
I'm Andrew and i hope to hear more from you.  
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Hey there, Memphis Raines!

That was a great introduction! Well, you are not alone with your love of horror. This forum has many horror fans on it so you will be in your element here. I myself like a little but not a lot... I agree, 28 days later wasn't a zomblie flick. I also think that the DOTD zombies were lame, as they were too fast. They were better in the original version.

I am a goonies freak and am about to embark on my own goonies adventure by heading out to the states for 3 months in september. So, I hope to get to know you a bit before I leave. I am also from London btw.

I hope you have a great time mingling on the board.

Andy xxx
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Andrew - Pleasure to meet ya, sir!


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Theoriginalgoonie - HEY YOU GUUUUYS!!!

Sorry, couldn't resist  

So, you're gonna embark on your own goonies adventure, huh? Cool... uh... can I tag along as well?!   We can travel around the states looking for treasure, and by treasure I mean breaking into peoples houses and stealing socks. Our calling card will be 'Goonie Freaks' spray painted on living room walls.   As our popularity grows by the media crazed hype we'll receive, we'll then be hunted down by Dog the Bounty Hunter and his crazy cohorts. Being tracked down and cornered in a single house by a mob of police, a SWAT team and village hicks carrying torches and pitchforks surrounding us, we'll place the last socks we ever stole onto our hands and kick open the front door, screaming as we run into the crowd, "GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE!!!" As we are torn to shreds in a hail of bullets, the guy who plays Chunk, one of the original goonies, will be watching on his television, slowly shaking his head at our demise...then, he'll slowly raise whatever beverage he happens to be drinking and say, "You got the juice now, man." Then he'll slide on some shades, cover his head with a hoodie, then switch the channel to watch 'Jeremiah', the episodes with Sean Astin...

How's that for an adventure?!   In the end it won't be about the treasure, aka socks, but about gettin' some of that original goonie lovin' by Chunk   Worth more than gold, man! Worth more than all the socks in the world!

Uh...by the way...

Pleasure to meet ya, Andy  


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LMAO!! That was an awesome adventure, I do hope to share that one with you... You name the cave and time and I'll be there! I'll even bring my eye patch and hat like my photo  

Here is a photo I thought I'd show you, where I'm with Chunk - Jeff Cohen and Mr Perkins - Curt Hanson - this was taken at the 'Never Say Die 2005' 20th anniversary event in June!

I organised it and with the help of the Astoria chamber of commerce, we got 3 cast members to attend. In addition to the two I just mentioned, we also got Sean Astin too. My website is http://www.gooniesevent.com which is a little dated now as the event is over, but you might like to check it out as you're a fan  

If ever you feel like reading a goonies sequel, mine is located in the adventure section, appropriately named ' Goonies Never Say Die'! Please let me know what works you have up on the site too btw.

I can't wait for this sunday to roll around because a few friends and I are having lunch with Curt Hanson!! It will be an amazing experience!

PS - Bounty Dog Hunter is one crazy assed show! Wow! I don't think we have anything like that here in the UK!!

PPS - Do you prefer to be called Memphis Raines or by your real name?

PPSS- What else do you do then apart from tell excellent goonies stories? I finished uni 5 years ago and am in limbo land so far as my career goes, lol. I work in a law firm right now but am leaving in 6 weeks, YAY!

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Hi.  I'm Alan.  Just as Andy is fanatical about THE GOONIES, I'm fanatical about my own creation, a series called BANANA CHAN.  Just as GOONIES is every second word out of Andy,  BANANA CHAN is every second and third word out of me.  If you think such fanaticism is a negative thing, I hate you.  If you think such devotion and fanaticism is a good thing, welcome!
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LMAO! Alan, very true, though I will try to refrain from using the forbidden 'G' word now as I don't want to annoy anyone!
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No, it's NOT annoying!  It lets me mention my stuff more often!  It lets anyone mention their own stuff more often!  Please continue!  I love it!
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LOL, ok Alan, I shall continue  

I might post a couple of photos up tomorrow after my lunch with Curt and my friends. A goonie in London... well, not a goonie persay... a property developer who tried to kick the goonies out from their homes..

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Welcome, Memphis.

I am not plugging anything right now.

Perhaps I should find something...


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Welcome, Memphis. My pet project is the Fempiror Chronicles, which is basically a fantasy-type twist on the vampire myth. There, I've plugged. We'd be happy to read whatever you come up with and as far as I know, the last public execution was deserved, but Kevin Revie lived through it.

No sock puppets and no running around the pool. Welcome aboard.


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Soccubus is the only sockpuppet allowed on these boards.  Don't cheese the little guy off and make sure your hand is warm--

What's that?  You want me to explain what I just wrote with a shameful plug?  Read Tocsin!!


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Kevin Revie's serial THE A-LIST is a good first effort from someone of his age, so I don't think that the public execution was deserved ... but I profitted from popcorn sales, so it's all good.
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It was deserved.  It wasn't the first time that he used sockpuppets (the earlier ones, I'm told, were deleted by Don), but he kept making up new ones.  He then ignored the more subtle warnings so it became a game of Dog Pile On The Rabbit.'


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Hey Memphis Raines!

I am Sasha and I am 13/m/uk!

I also have my own obsession with J-Horror, especially Ringu, Evil Dead Trap, and Dark Water!

Pleased to meet thou!

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Kevin Revie's serial THE A-LIST is a good first effort from someone of his age, so I don't think that the public execution was deserved ... but I profitted from popcorn sales, so it's all good.


Yeah, his A-List and even Seventeen weren't all that bad, so we didn't string him up for the scripts he wrote. It was those horrible sockpuppets. As I recall, he was given away the first time by using an e-mail address at the bottom of the first script he submitted, which was different from the e-mail address in his "KevenRevie" profile. He was called on it ad the game was "afoot."

Ah, good times...  


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Please forgive the lateness of my reply. Weekend was somewhat hetic, half of which went by like a blur...

Anyways, on to those who stopped by and said hi...  

Before I go on, I just want to answer Andy's question: You can call me Memphis Raines, or just Memphis, or if you're nasty... Mr. Raines   Whichever is cool with me. And yes, I've started reading some of your Goonies script, actually I got to the part where Data is having his bachelor party. I don't know why, but having them sing and dance along to Salt and Peppa's 'Push It', had me feeling kind of embarrassed for those dudes...lol So far so good though, and hopefully I'll get done reading it soon.

Now onto more of the peeps who stopped by and made a dude feel welcomed!  

Alan Holman - Pleasure to meet ya, sir. I am familiar with your Banana Chan series, as I see it pop up from time to time on the site. I remember giving one of your scripts of the series a quick skimming. Having not been a regular reader of your early works, I just didn't want to pick up in the middle then have to work my way back and forth between old and new stories... just cuz, y'know, I'm a lazy ass. Anyways, what little I did read though, I found that your dialogue moved rather smoothly. And your descriptions of characters were so vibrant and colorful. Plus, seeing as how when I try to write something funny, I fail miserably in the crash and burn sense, you seem to write cool sounding dialogue. And by cool sounding I mean that, when it's funny, it's funny. Thanks for saying hi, man  

Bert - I see ya ditched Ernie... or just plain chopped his body into little bitty pieces and stuffed him into a trash can in a dark alley of Sesame Street somewhere.Perhaps giving his corpse over to Oscar the Grouch to eat, y'know, seeing as how he is a monster after all, who lives in a trash can. By the look of that pic, I can imagine a pissed off Bert saying, "Walk down the right back alley in Sesame Street and you can find anything."   Thanks for stopping by and saying hi, Bert. And yes, I'm also somewhat familiar with your writing. And I have to say, your short story 'Someplace Nice and Dark' is one of the finest scripts I have ever read on here! Having read the responses you got for it, forget about what people say when they tell ya that your line "... a fresh testament to abandon dreams and quiet desperation.", doesn't belong. It works wonderfully, yo! It helps to paint a more clear picture, or actually, helps to set the mood of the setting more better than actually describing the whole location. Sure, you can probably type your little heart out with descriptions, but that line just sums up the whole feel of the setting much more better! Hell, even Tarantino has lines like that in his script! Read 'Pulp Fiction' and see how he describes the backroom of Maynard's basement, regarding the fate of some unlucky bastid who had the misforturne of crossing paths with Maynard and Zed. Wonderful work in setting the mood. Anyways, I look forward to reading more stories of yours, Bert. And perhaps, when your back is turned, hitting you over the head with a shovel and drilling into your skull, so that I may hook up a tube and tap into the creative pool of yours, bleeding you dry untill your nothing more than a skeleton with skin hanging off of your bones  

George Wilson - Pleasure to meet you as well, sir! Your pet project sounds rather interesting. Hell, if it has to do with vampires, I'm there! Don't know who Kevin Revie is, but I'm glad he survived his public execution. Last thing we need is some ghost haunting this place...actually, thinking about it, it would sort of be cool to have a ghost writer among us  

Dogglebe - Interesting name, sir. Pleasure to meet you as well! That shameful plug of yours was shameful indeed. However, curiosity is getting the better of me. Whatever Tocsin is, I guess I'll soon find out. Was gonna break out my sock puppet, but thanks to your warning, I best leave Hitler, the cutest sock puppet the worlds ever known, in his resting place... for now...  

Curse aka Sasha - Thanks for the welcome, man! Pleased to meet ya as well, young sir. Being a fan of j-horror myself, 'Tale of Two Sisters' and 'Kairo' being among my favourites, it's nice to meet another person on here who shares the same interest in horror as I do. Something about the way horror movies from Japan slowly build up tension in their movies is what I find interesting! It's cool to see how America handles the remakes of those movies. Hated the remake of The Ring, but loved the original - Ringu! And I just realised, 'Tale of Two Sisters' is actually Korean. Oh well, a wonderful movie nonetheless! If you got a story that you would like me to read, Sasha, just give'er on over to me and I'll have a looksie. Cool? Cool. Again, a pleasure meeting you, man!  

Wow... got kind of carried away with my responses, didn't I? Oh well, if you guys took the time out to say hi, I just wanted to return the favour and say hello back   Once I do get something finished, I'll defintely post it on here! But for now, if any of you have a story for me to read, do like Dogglebe did and send me a link. I'm interested in seeing more, or anything each of you wrote. Thanks!  

By the way, the line 'but I profitted from popcorn sales', cracked me up! That was funny, man!

Anyways, you cats stay cool. I'll check in again later...  


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Hey!  It's a free plug!  I like this guy already...

"Bert" is actually short for "Robert".  It actually has very little to do with Ernie.  I think just about everybody is missing that...

"Two Sisters" confused the hell out of me. I have been hyping "The Untold Story" to Curse, so I guess I'll hype it to you, too.  It's a very straight-forward slice of nastiness.  I really dug it, anyway.


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Free plugs rock.

And Bert, all one has to do is read the title page of one of your scripts to see your name is Robert and make the connection. That's about all it took for me to think, "Oh, he's not just being cute with the name...he really is Bert. I really must ask what it's like to have Frank Oz's hand up his-"

Oh, did I type that out loud?



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What are you talking about?  His scripts are good for his age.  I don't know or care about anything to do with sock puppets; it's totally irrelevant.  Just because you use a sock-puppet in your avatar doesn't mean that no one else can.  If that's what you're giving him a hard time about, get a life.
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Alan, we're referring to instances of the violation of Rule 10a. We're calling those extra names sockpuppets since you tend to have one primarily and then go ventriloquist with the others. Nothing to do with avatars...


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Oh, I get it now.  

And by the way MEMPHIS -- thanks for mentioning Banana Chan!  Until it gets produced, if it's not mentioned, in a positive light, at least once per day, I have ... well ... emotional problems.  So thanks!
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Alan,  Kevin came up with the Stifler 'sockpuppet' and kept writing mindless praise to himself, keeping his work on top of the discussion lists.  For the most part, he was the only one contributing to these discussions.  And Kevin's work was the only work that Stifler praised.

In regards to my avatar being the only sockpuppet on the board, that was just a joke.


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Quoted from Memphis Raines
 Being a fan of j-horror myself, 'Tale of Two Sisters' and 'Kairo' being among my favourites, it's nice to meet another person on here who shares the same interest in horror as I do.


LOL! I have Kairo on dvd! I didn't know anyone else had heard of it!!! I thought it was rather creepy, but my sister hated it.

Thanks for checking out my script, you didn't have to by the way. I just think it's cool you're a fan, as it seems to be myslef, Goonie17/Zane and a couple of others who love that movie here.

Andy xxx
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Ok, I'll admit that I've watched and enjoyed The Goonies on several occasions, and I even palyed and finished the Nintendo game, Goonies 2 (decent game for its time). I can't remember the first time I saw, whether it was during its first run release, or on VHS from the video store. I think we taped it off of TV once when I was younger. I can still hear Cyndi Lauper singing in my head.

Call me a closet fan as I am with so many movies, but I am not a fanatic about it...then again, I'm not much of a fanatic about anything. Ok, Bond maybe...



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Awe, George, I love you   I am so glad you came out to me about Goonies  

I have never played the game but my friend has the full size arcade game in his garage, must be worth a fortune.

Cyndi ROCKS btw!..."Good enough, for you it's good enough, for me it's goooooood enough, it's good enough for meeeee, a-ay-ya-ya-ya-yaaaaaaaaa"!!!!LMAO! Sorry, couldn't help myself...

This is probably going to annoy you, as it does most Bond fans, but I thought Roger Moore was the best  
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This is probably going to annoy you, as it does most Bond fans, but I thought Roger Moore was the best  


Oh no Andy! While we will always agree on the Goonies, I am going to have to go against you on this one. Sean Connery was and always will be the BEST James Bond! He is the true super-pimp, even to this day!



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Ok, wait, he was the HORNIEST Bond.... I have no idea about his bondage abilities...

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Each of the 5 to date who have played Bond have had their strengths. Roger Moore was probably the most appealing just due to the wit he brought to the part.

Brosnan was probably the most suave at the part and kept some of Roger Moore's wit (but thankfully not all of it).

George Lazenby wasn't Bond long enogh to develop much into it, but he did a good job on his one outing, not to mention getting one of the best movies.

Sean Connery was the first and probably one of the most accurate Bonds we've had, probably mostly due to Ian Fleming being on the set of the first two movies.

Timothy Dalton portrayed Bond very well in my opinion primarily because he had a cold, git-r-done attitude. I think his accuracy on how Bond would conduct himself was very spot on as well.

Those're my opinions. I like them all for different reasons, and I still watch all the movies - even the crappy ones.


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So who do you want to see as the next Bond then?

What look does the actual Bond agent have to have?

Basically, what checklist do you need to pass to be a James Bond?

Also, are the actors who've played Bond anything like the ones in the 007 books that I've heard about?

I think Dermot Mulroney would look pretty sharp...
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Not sure on who I would like to see, but they MUST be eurpean. He must have black hair, chisled facial features, and a smooth way about himself. Also, I would prefer an unknown actor that could jump in and run with the next five or six films. We all know that 007 films will continue on till the end of time.......


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When it come to casting people, I stink. I've seen virtual series fully cast, so for a lark, I tried to see what I could come up with. Yeah, I stink. It's one of those things that I would know if I saw it.

In Casino Royale, Fleming alludes to Bond resembling Hoagy Carmichael. The book description of Bond is like this: a three-inch, vertical scar on his left cheek (which is not in the movies); blue-grey eyes; a "cruel" mouth; short-cut, dark hair, a comma of which falls on his forehead, and (after Casino Royale) the faint scar of the Russian cyrillic letter "SH" on the back of one of his hands (a gift from the SMERSH agent who bailed him out). SMERSH is Bond's primary rival in the books. It is two Russian words, Smiert Spionam, mashed together. They mean "death to spies."

Timothy Dalton is commonly accepted to have best fit this decription. But see for yourself...here is a drawing of Bond commissioned by Ian Fleming for the Daily Express comic book artists:


Thinking over the actors, I do stand with the Dalton crowd in appearance, though I like what the other actors did with the character as well.

What's it take? Bond was a womanizer, smoker, drinker, and gambler. Although Bond apparently kicked the smoking habit in Tomorrow Never Dies, he does enjoy a Cuban cigar in Die Another Day.

Dermot Mulroney? He might be ok, but he's American. Bond is Scottish. Fleming was so pleased with Connery's performance at Bond that he decided that's where Bond descends from. Beyond Connery, Lazenby was Australian, Moore was English, Dalton was Italian/Welsh (but born in Wales), and Brosnan is Irish. I think we should try to keep the actor from the UK.


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Now I'm going to be thinking all day for a British actor who fits the James Bond description!!

Hmmm, I will get back to you if I can think of anyone based on the criteria above.

I like some of the Bond films, I do. My favourite is the one with that Jaws bloke. Was it Moonraker/Moonstalker??? The one wear he kissed the girl with the braces, so sweet  

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Roger Moore was the one in Moonraker.

My fav would have to be Sean Connery, the guy was so cool.

Going by the drawing, I will be a million miles away in saying Christain Bale ( sp, the new Batman guy).  I know he's not English but that just shows my casting abilty lol.




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Quoted from Scoob
Roger Moore was the one in Moonraker.


Of course it was good old Roger. My favourite and the sexiest Bond, hands down.

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